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First day of spring brings sweet, cool giveaways

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REPUBLICAN PARTY FOUNDED THIS DAY IN 1854

Republican Party beats slimy alternative -- State Journal editorial from 140 years ago | Opinion ...
The movement that would create the anti-slavery party first
met here in Ripon, Wisconsin.

The former members of the Whig Party met to establish a new
party to oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories.

The Whig Party, which was formed in 1834 to oppose the “tyranny”
of President
Andrew Jackson, had shown itself incapable of
coping with the national crisis over slavery.

JFK + 50: JFK GIVES SPEECH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF COSTA RICA

Republican Party founded - HISTORY

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DID ANYONE ADOPT ONE OF THESE DOLLS?

Frisch The Backstory Of Cabbage Patch Kids

The Cabbage Patch Kids doll brand set every toy industry sales
record for three years running, and was one of the most popular
lines of children’s licensed products in the 1980s and has
become one of the longest-running doll franchises in the
United States.

Cabbage Patch creator Xavier Roberts, below, copyrighted his
design in 1976 and sold the rights to company Giant Coleco in
1982. Dolls that were made prior to the Coleco handover are
worth the most.

Your old Cabbage Patch doll could be worth thousands of dollars | Better Homes and Gardens

Xavier Roberts stamped onto every Cabbage Patch | Xavier roberts, Cabbage patch, My childhood ...

RARE Original 1985 Cabbage Patch Kids doll NIB Green Eye ALLIE LAYLA Nov 1 Birth | eBay ...
1483026030-5358-Cabbage-patch-kids-logo - HistoryBitz

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VINTAGE AD FROM THE 1984 BURGER WARS

Best Super Bowl Commercials - Super Bowl Food Ads

Remember this TV commercial showing senior citizen Clara Peller, right, ordering a burger?

Clara and the Beef

Clara Peller | Clara Peller (born August 4, 1902 in Chicago,… | Flickr

Peller was a Russian-born American manicurist and
television personality

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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ROSS SIMPSON

10 Years After Invasion, A Look At Iraq War Legacy | Here & Now

Bombing Hasn’t Worked. Bombing Won’t Work. And Yet, We Will Bomb | The Nation

Global Opportunity Costs: How the Iraq War Undermined U.S. Influence - Defense - GovExec.com

baghdad_bombing - Photo 18 - CBS News

Baghdad Bombing - Photo 17 - Pictures - CBS News

On March 19, 2003, the United States, along with coalition
forces primarily from the United Kingdom, initiated war on
Iraq. Just after explosions began to rock Baghdad, Iraq’s
capital, U.S. President
George W. Bush announced in a 
TV address (below), “At this hour, American and coalition 
forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm
Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave 
danger.” President Bush and his  advisors built much of their 
case for war on the specious claim that Iraq, under dictator 
Saddam Hussein
, possessed or was in the process of building 
weapons of mass destruction.

 

Baghdad Bombing | C-SPAN.org



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